How making rules crippling public transport?
Obviously not everything is great in the west or here where I live but I prefer it to gutter oil or play doah buldings. China is far from perfect as well.
In expense of peoples lives and well being.
You can also say that Doctor Mengele helped to advance modern medicine and you would be right. Still this would be really inhumane view of the world.
Transit needs major innovation and overhaul if it's to gain any significant market share.
For instance in the UK (in 2022), a whopping 6% of commuting trips were by bus and 9% were by rail. Even less for leisure: 3% of leisure trips are by bus, 3% by rail. That's terrible market share!